Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

A fascinating aviation museum where you can chat with the veterans who once flew the aircraft on display.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

Like Mars, but much closer.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.